The document discusses the components of an entity-relationship (ER) model including entities, attributes, and relationships. It defines entities as objects, people, or places. Attributes describe an entity's properties. Relationships show how entities relate to each other, such as one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many. The ER model develops a conceptual design for a database using these components depicted in an ER diagram.